In an empty database, with Spanish language, install module `contacts`, and then go to the screen of creating a new contact. It appears like this:  The `<div class="addres_format">` fields (highlighted in green) appear with **Spanish placeholders** (good!). Now, edit your user's company's details and set country: Spain. Then again create a new partner. See the results:  This time **those placeholders appear in English**. (Also, badly styled, but merge https://github.com/odoo/odoo/pull/4059 and that gets fixed). I imagine [the function `fields_view_get_address`](https://github.com/odoo/odoo/blob/8.0/openerp/addons/base/res/res_partner.py#L63) gets processed after the translation instead of before, and so the XML it injects is always in English.